court slams esdc / atlantic yards as acorn falls

the plot thickens in our quiet hamlet of prospect heights...

court slams ny state on atlantic yards, rules for dddb

acorn falls but where went the bertha?

We will never see Phase II.

....Starting in 2012, we will have an arena with a really big parking lot for the indefinite future.

did you see the size of hole they dug

for the bertha lewis public benefits pool?

awesome

whynot_31 wrote 10 hours ago »

We will never see Phase II.

....Starting in 2012, we will have an arena with a really big parking lot for the indefinite future.

Ugh. A truly masterful bait & switch

^ There's a joke in there somewhere.

"eat at bait & switch"

is forest city ratner's

fast food division

step 1: Take out the "ful".

step 2: Interpret switch as a type of whip. As in "he taught Bertha who is boss with a switch".

It's called Progress. Haven't you ever heard of Free Market Capitalism?

(Wait! Wasn't I being instructed in that just recently?)

Correct.

No one owns the neighborhood.

Bertha was dumb enough to think that she'd get affordable housing built if she supported the project. ....what a fool.

AY is an example of many things in our society, but it has nothing

to do with "free market" capitalism. Crony capitalism perhaps. Forest City was not even the highest bidder for the Vanderbilt railyards.

There are forces more powerful than government. Nothing, especially not the market, is free. Bertha was naive, or in on it, take your pick.

A clamshell will soon appear where there was once a U haul truck rental, for better or worse.

but we can all sing about it!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/theater/10footprint.html?_r=2

xlizellx wrote 1 hour ago »

but we can all sing about it!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/theater/10footprint.html?_r=2

Sounds a little artsy for my tastes, but I like it.

....I'm good at singing.

Not as good as Karl is at poetry, but good nonetheless.

Karl, is this victory for DDDB kinda like invading Iraq and then being told there were no weapons of mass destruction?

(i.e. the approval process and bidding was a sham, but it is going to get built anyway?)

....we just made up those things so average people would support it.

this season finale has not yet been written

but stay tuned

Hmmmmm....who were the politicians involved with the development? Who is our new Attorney General. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Interesting how a Brooklyn judge (Gerges) was Ratner's rubber stamp throughout the process but that a Manhattan judge actually considers the arguments of both sides.

bruce seemed to go for the shiny yet lower end buyout:

daughtry, bertha, gerges and the like

a manhattan judge might have been

too expensive to purchase

The ability to buy out the media is to be considered as well. The Jets' West Side Stadium project undoubtedly had its flaws, but it at least wasn't going to displace a single human resident. Yet opponents of that project were framed in the media as "dedicated community activists."

DDDB was repeatedly called "rabble-rousers" and a "small group of agitators" by the Daily News and Post, and the Times basically refused to acknowledge that there were any opponents to the project at all.

No surprise, indeed, why there was no coverage of Friedman's decision by the dailies.

karl prefers these terms:

townie american vs landtheif gypsies